Hi everyone
A lot of people have asked me over the last few days if things are back to normal now following the great first weekend we had in the Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain and to all of them my answer has been the same. Things were very much normal again from the moment I left the circuit on Easter Monday. Firstly I haven?t had time to think about it all too much because I?ve been very busy. I was only back home for a day and then I was off to Rowrah in Cumbria for five days working with the Project One Kart team who took part in some testing and a club race meeting there in preparation for the Rotax Super One Kart Championship round this weekend. So now I?m back for just a couple of days and in the Project One workshop as I write as we prepare to head back up to Rowrah tomorrow! Busy, busy, busy!!
It was strange because while I was at Rowrah most of last week I was pretty much cut off from the outside world such is the remoteness of the location. The mobile phone signal is almost non-existent, there was no internet and not even anywhere nearby selling newspapers so no Motorsport Press either! So I had to wait until yesterday to read all the reports from the previous weekend. But this is very much my life at the moment. Through necessity I work in one branch of motorsport which is karting while I try to pursue my goals in motor racing at the same time.
It?s interesting that some of my peers state their profession as Professional Racing Drivers. Well that is their prerogative but to my mind to be a professional someone has to pay you for practicing a particular task and so therefore until someone starts paying me to drive a racing car (what a great way to make a living that would be) I cannot regard myself as a professional driver. My time between races is very much occupied either earning or trying to raise the funding to keep racing myself. I do not have the luxury of a personal trainer, fitness guru, nutrionist or mind coach like some others I know; nor do I have a professional manager representing me. I take responsibility for my own decisions and stand by them and so far haven?t done too bad. I?m very happy with the working relationship that I have with the race team, the car manufacturer, the engine supplier and of course the sponsors. We are all in this together and all want the same thing.
Talking of sponsors I cannot thank them enough and right now would just like to record a big thank you to ScanDoc, Essex Gas Utilities, Baines Property Leasing and Laserfiche Software for their assistance to date which has made all of this possible. But as brilliant as they all are I still very much have to work on finding the shortfall in budget that we have to complete the season which is extremely hard in these harsh economic times but I will keep at it as I believe we have a great chance to achieve something special in this year if we all continue to work as hard as we have been doing.
So next up will be Knockhill in Scotland for rounds 4, 5 & 6 of the championship being held over the 2nd weekend in May; but before that we hope to be able to do some testing somewhere so I will keep you posted when that happens and how we get on.
All the best for now
Scott
